Washington, however, had warmly welcomed the creation of a strong central government, and his correspondence with the leading men of the colonies for some years previously had been burdened with arguments to convince them that a mere league of States would not suffice to create a stable nation.
This statement reflects Washington's strong advocacy for a robust central government.
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They nobly conceived that human society was a single unit and that it was governed by a law that was both antecedent and paramount to the law of Rome.
I only mention the subject to suggest that the reader of these lectures will better understand why the American people take the written obligations of the League so seriously and literally.
Pennsylvania and New York, with nearly one-sixth of the entire population of the United States, have only four votes in ninety-six votes in the Senate.
I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
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